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Changing Women in Brontë Novels
2011-11-25 00:35:00
Another example of recent Japanese Brontë scholarship:First Wave Feminism: Changing Women in the Novels of Brontë, Hardy and Drabbleフェミニズムã�¨ãƒ’ロインã �®å¤‰é�· ― ブロンテã€�ãƒ�ーディã€�ドラブム«ã‚’中心ã�«by Kazama Makiko (風間末起å­�)Publisher: 世界æ€�想社 (2011/7/23)ISBN-13: 978-4790715320Chapter 2 (リベラル・フェミニズムをå�—ã �‘継ã��ヒロイン，ã��れを越ã�ˆã‚‹ ヒロイン) discusses Jane Eyre and Chapter 3 (セクシュアリティã�¨ãƒ´ã‚£ã‚¯ãƒˆã ƒªã‚¢ãƒ³ãƒ»ãƒ’ロイン) talks about Villette.

Wuthering Heights, the experience
2011-11-24 14:43:00
X Media Online gives 3.5 stars out of 5 to Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights:Character and language problems aside, aesthetically the film is exquisite. Because of this, it is much more suited to lovers of the countryside and the gothic romantic than specifically of Wuthering Heights as a novel. Watching this in the cinema really transports you to the middle of nature – it rolls you in mud, drenches you with rain, shakes you with storms, sings you traditional songs by the fire and presents picturesque, misty vistas. While not a great telling of Wuthering Heights “the story�, this film definitely shows you Wuthering Heights, “the experience�. (Katie Wilkinson)The film is also reviewed by: John Bates Writes, Wading Through Treacle, Cecil & Bea's Film Reviews and Miss Cellany.Film Threat has a demolishing review of Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre:Mia Wasikowska’s stiff Jane and Michael Fassbender’s cranky Rochester add to the confusion – anyone who is familiar with the...
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Brontë Literary Supper with Juliet Barker
2011-11-24 00:07:00
An alert for today, November 24 in Holmfield, Halifax:Brontë Literary Supper with Notable Brontë author Juliet BarkerAt: Holdsworth House Hotel & Restaurant, Holmfield, Halifax, HX2 9TG. Time: 7.00pm, Thursday 24th NovemberHoldsworth House is not only one of the finest hotels in West Yorkshire it also is a wonderful example of a ‘Halifax House’, an important style of 17th Century architecture unique to this area. One of the earliest properties built in this style was nearby High Sunderland, now sadly demolished, it is thought by many Bronte historians to be the inspiration for Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë would certainly have been aware of its presence, as it stood on the hill top across from Law Hill, where she worked in 1838.At this special Holdsworth House event, local author Juliet Barker, one of the leading authorities on the Brontë family, will provide an insight into their lives and writings, drawing from their experiences in this area.There will be books ava...

Chartist Wuthering Heights
2011-11-23 13:24:00
The Edinburgh Journal reviews Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights giving it 4 stars out of 5:Arnold’s film succeeds in conveying the darkness of the book. The English moors have never looked more beautiful and isolated; battered by ceaseless wind and torrents of rain.The characters seem as eroded by the harshness of the weather as the land they inhabit. The majority of the actors involved do a great job of playing Brontë’s characters, but if James Howson is a frightening, grief-stricken, devilish Heathcliff, Kaya Scodelario’s Catherine is a flatter character; more whimsical woman than Brontë’s tortured protagonist.Nonetheless, this is a remarkable film, driven by some bold directorial choices which have made what could have been just another cinematographic version of a well-known story into a visual feast. The attention to detail through close ups, the slow pulling of the focus in several blurred shoots, an extreme use of light, and the total lack of a soundtrack, land the...

Wuthering Heights. The Graphic Novel. A Review
2011-11-23 00:02:00
Our thanks to Classical Comics for sending us a review copy of this book.Wuthering Heights. The Graphic NovelEmily BrontëScript Adaptation: Seán M. WilsonArtwork: John M. BurnsLettering: Jim CampbellFormat: 160 pages full colour, sewn paperbackOriginal Text VersionISBN: 978-1-906332-87-7Quick Text VersionISBN: 978-1-906332-88-4In the last years on BrontëBlog we have reviewed many Wuthering Heights adaptations, revisitations, remakes, prequels or sequels. And some children adaptations with or without illustrations too. But when we address the Classical Comics' adaptation we feel as if we were travelling in quite a different country. Not because we have here a new, challenging, exciting new approach to Emily Brontë's territory full of unexplored ideas or controversial ones. No, this is not the equivalent of the Andrea Arnold's treatment of the story of Heathcliff and Catherine(1) but a very canonical, very faithful but, nonetheless, very interesting adaptation.The ...
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Hearthrob Heathcliff
2011-11-22 16:13:00
Nouse reviews Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, giving it just one star:Period dramas are supposed to be our forte. The genre is supposed to be what we excel at. So when one hears that the UK film council is making an adaptation of the classic English novel ‘Wuthering Heights,’ a high quality is expected. However, this latest attempt is a disastrous failure and all aspects of the film are to blame.Andrea Arnold, the woman behind such overrated British dramas as ‘Red Road’ and “Fish Tank� is totally out of her depth with the rolling countryside of Yorkshire as her setting. She seems to have ignored the existence of a tripod in all her films, thinking the handheld look is part of her “original style� which only adds to the queasiness and depressingly slow pace as the camera wonders from meaningless shots of Heathcliff’s foot to a meandering wood louse.The beginning is drawn out like a broken tap, dripping onto the screen for the thirsty viewer to lap up. Occasional...

Sotheby's auction (III)
2011-11-22 00:16:00
More Brontë lots at the historical Sotheby's auction that will take place next December 15th. More Ellen Nussey's copies of the Brontë-related books are also auctioned:English Literature, History, Private Press,Children's Books & Illustrations London / 15 December 2011 10:30 AMLot 38Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. Smith, Elder & Co., 1849 8vo (194 x 120mm.), first edition, Ellen Nussey's copy, 16-page publisher's catalogue at the end of volume 1, advertisements at the end of volume 3, p.304 in volume 2 misnumbered "403" and with error "Well said he", bookplate with vignette of Oakwell Hall, Birstall, nr. Leeds tipped-in to volume 1, late nineteenth-century polished red calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, original brown cloth spines bound in, spines in six compartments with morocco labels, top edges gilt, inner dentelles, red coated endpapers, spines sunned and with some slight wear, some minor soiling and spotting to text.Estimate 3,000-5,000 GBPProvenancePresented by the a...
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Are you a Jane Eyre freak?
2011-11-21 16:15:00
A Younger Theatre reviews the play We Are Three Sisters:The play is powerful in that we begin to understand in part why the sisters wrote the novels they did. We can see Jane Eyre in Charlotte, Catherine Earnshaw in Emily, and Helen Huntingdon in Anne. All three are powerful women ahead of their time, complete with strong wills and a common refusal to accept the limitations set by their gender, social standing and patriarchal era. It was intelligently directed, well written and well cast. A definite must-see. (Chloe Ravat)New York Magazine features Michael Fassbender and makes quite a good point when it states,Whatever your filmgoing kink, Michael Fassbender has been there for you this year. Jane Eyre freak? He played a brooding, passionate, waistcoated Mr. Rochester seducing Mia Wasikowska. (Kyle Buchanan)We are not quite sure we agree with The Age:Opera's cornerstone is music but literature's vital contribution to the art form is rarely recognised. If you take plays into account...
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Sotheby's Auction (II)
2011-11-21 00:04:00
More Brontë lots at the historical Sotheby's auction that will take place next December 15th. Besides a Charlotte Brontë manuscript, Ellen Nussey's copies of the Brontë novels are also auctioned:English Literature, History, Private Press,Children's Books & IllustrationsLondon / 15 December  2011 10:30 AMLot 41Wuthering Heights. A Novel by Ellis Bell and Agnes Grey. A Novel by Acton Bell. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847.8vo (194 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, Ellen Nussey's copy with her ownership signature on front endpaper of volume 3 ("E Nussey"), p.342 in volume one misnumbered "242", p.382 in volume 2 misnumbered "282", p.313 in volume 3 misnumbered "213" (all points listed by Smith), one leaf (of two) present from advertisements at the end of volume 3, late nineteenth-century polished red calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, original brown cloth spines bound in, spines in six compartments with morocco labels, top edges gilt, inner dentelles, red coated endpapers, d...
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Punk in the Air
2011-11-20 16:32:00
Tim Adams remembers in The Observer how the release of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights thirty years ago was quite an event:I remember the first time I heard it; the release of Wuthering Heights in 1978 coincided with my third year at grammar school in Birmingham studying Emily Brontë's novel in our English lessons. We were 13, it was a boys' school; hormones were running high. Bush seemed, uncannily, to be talking just to us.All the plotlines that had been written up on the blackboard – "Discuss the importance of windows in the novel"; "Describe the extremes of Cathy Earnshaw's character in terms of the landscape" – were suddenly writ large in unsettling eyeliner and lipstick on Top of the Pops. It was spooky practical crit set to music: cue strangled choruses of "I'm so co-o-o-old", in breaking Brummie adolescent voices, from the back of class, and much ardent, after-hours imagining of subconscious female archetypes. Punk had been in the air, but Bush, with her scary hair, ...

Sotheby's auction (I)
2011-11-20 00:45:00
The Young Men's Magazine manuscript is certainly the big star in the upcoming Sotheby's auction (December 15th) we have been posting about. But it is not the only item to be auctioned. In this series of posts we try to give details of all the Brontë lots. English Literature, History, Private Press,Children's Books & IllustrationsLondon / 15 December  2011 10:30 AMLot 46BRONTË. SOLD BY SERGEANT TREE AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS IN THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE CHIEF GLASS TOWN PARIS ROSS GT PARRYS GT WELLINGTONS GLASS TOWN &C &C &C ... FINISHED AUGUST 19 1830 Unpublished miniature autograph manuscript written in minuscule script, comprising title page (p.1), half-title and contents (p.2), "A letter from Lord Charles Wellesley" (pp.3-10), "The Midnight Song" (pp.11-14), "Journal of a Frenchman [continued]" (pp.14-18), "Advertisements" ("...Six young men wish to let themselves all a hire for the purpose of cleaning out pockets they are in reduced CIRCUMSTANCES...")...
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Tyler Durden reads Agnes Grey
2011-11-19 19:05:00
iF Poems/The Times Young Poet includes in its 30 great poems everyone should know Emily Brontë's Love and Friendship.Varsity posts a good review of Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights:Thankfully, the overall sense was that Arnold is someone who understands Brontë’s vision. One of the key features in the novel is the number of different narrators, all with their respective biases and voices.This adaptation does not have enough space for Nelly Dean or the cantankerous and fervently religious Joseph to be as present on screen as on the page, but this is for good reason. The third most significant character in the film is nature, the Yorkshire moors serving as more than just a picturesque backdrop for an inspiring love tale.Nature is a complex and reflective force, never quite fully on Heathcliff’s side. There is enough sloppy peat to satisfy both Hughes and Heaney, and at times the branches and the twigs seem to be wailing and later raging, the tormented passions of Heathcliff an...
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Brontë Weather Project
2011-11-19 00:01:00
Rebecca Chesney is a visual artist who this year is the artist in residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. She is working in a project which she describes like this:The Brontë Weather Project is a year long research residency based at The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth and will run from September 2011. During the residency I will be studying the local weather patterns at Haworth and also reading texts by the Brontës to see how they were influenced and inspired by the weather.You can follow the project on this blog. So far, the last published post talks about the (in)famous 1850 Babbage report.

'I liked Cathy. My mum hates her.'
2011-11-18 14:48:00
The Yorker reviews Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights:Rarely do adaptations of Emily Brontë's classic novel do justice to the original's dark, gloomy tone. The 1939 Hollywood version for instance, widely regarded as the definitive version, is certainly a very well-made and enjoyable film, but has the standard classical Hollywood tone that feels at odds with the bitter, cynical subject matter. This latest adaptation of Wuthering Heights could hardly be more different, portraying a constant feeling of foreboding misery, featuring no music and a relatively unknown cast who mostly hardly speak a word. ...This new Wuthering Heights film may be a hard film to love, with its unlikable characters, grim, uncomfortable imagery (particularly of animals) and its difficult camera-work, but it certainly deserves praise and admiration for its innovation, whilst offering a faithful yet genuinely unique take on the infamous love story. (Stephen Puddicombe)The director, Andrea Arnold will be tom...

Brontë's Grave
2011-11-18 00:21:00
A new book about literary tourism has just been published: Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave Simon Goldhill144 pages | 12 halftones, 1 map | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | © 2011Culture Trails: Adventures in TravelUniversity of Chicago PressThe Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victorian entrepreneurs transformed quiet Stratford-upon-Avon into a combination shrine and tourist trap.Stratford continues to lure the tourists today, as do many other sites of literary pilgrimage throughout Britain. And our modern age could have no better guide to such places than Simon Goldhill. In Freud's Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë's Grave, Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scott's baronial mansion, Wordsworth's cottage in the...

19th-century Kardashians
2011-11-17 15:26:00
Little White Lies interviews Kaya Scodelario:LWLies: Have you seen the film yet? What did you think?Scodelario: I really liked it! It was weird because I never received a full script, we were given the lines the day before shooting. So watching the film was the first time I knew what was going on in the rest of the film! So it was really cool to watch. I took some friends as well, who I know would never have gone to see it if I wasn’t in it. They’d think, ‘That’s not my thing,’ and they really enjoyed it. It was nice to know that a younger generation enjoyed it.It’s not your average period romp is it?No, not at all. I like to think that Andrea’s kind of created this new genre, where it feels very modern, it’s not stuck to the rules. Everyone thought period drama had to be done a certain way and that’s the only way it can be done, people have to walk very slowly and speak properly, there has to be lots of sunshine and flowers. Andrea’s just turned that on its head...

Cats, Truelove and a Bracelet
2011-11-17 00:19:00
Recently published and only available in the Brontë Parsonage Museum shop:Cats , "Truelove", a Bracelet ...Edited by Sarah FermiBrontë SocietyISBN 978-1-903007-14-3, 44ppThe winning entries of the Brontë Society’s 2011 Literary Competition are now available in the form of a small book. This is an exciting collection of six short stories (ranging from the lyrical to the gritty), three essays (two seriously academic, one sparklingly personal) and six superb poems, several from prize-winning poets. The very high standard of the winners was guaranteed by the skill of the three eminent judges: Bonnie Greer O.B.E. (now our new President) judged the short stories; Professor Heather Glen of Cambridge University, the essays; and Professor Michael O’Neill of Durham University, the poetry. 

Not Emily Brontë
2011-11-16 14:20:00
More websites such as Express (which also publishes this colour image) or Smash Hits are echoing the news of Emily Brontë's portrait (NOT! See yesterday's post) being auctioned in a few weeks. We understand the auction house's reasons for selling this as Emily Brontë, but sorry, that's simply not her.NOLA discusses having a wide vocabulary and reading:I read “Jane Eyre� and “Pride and Prejudice� when I was 13, and now I notice they’re suggested for 18-year-olds. I wasn’t any smarter at 13 than kids are today; certainly not when they can navigate complicated tech gadgets that I wouldn’t dream of putting my aged fingers on. (Bettye Anding)Wuthering Heights 2011 is reviewed by JakeshakerReview, Ruthless Culture, In Your Face, My Cinema Blog and OBV. She is too fond of books discusses chapters 9-17 of the novel. Love Letters to Forever and Parading Goats post about Jane Eyre 2011 and 1996 respectively.EDIT:More about Emily Brontë at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:An ...

Jane Eyre's Rival - A Review
2011-11-16 00:08:00
We are very grateful to Clair Holland for sending us a review copy of this book. Jane Eyre's Rival: The Real Mrs Rochester Clair Holland Kindle Edition/ PaperbackFile Size: 203 KB/ISBN: 978-1-907527-00-5Blue Ocean Publishing; 1 edition (10 July 2011)Jane Eyre's Rival is a two-into-one sort of book, helpfully separated into chapters with different fonts by the author to help the reader differentiate both sides of the book. The chapters written in a modern sans serif font broach the subject of relationships, initially from a fictional point of view, as thought out by an imaginary American woman named Lisa who is studying at Cambridge and who is a descendant of Bertha Mason. The chapters written in a more classical-looking font are those that concern us, BrontëBlog, the most.Of course this isn't the first time that Bertha Mason has sprung off from the pages of Jane Eyre - she most famously did that in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, where she was renamed Antoinette. Wide Sargasso S...
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Dubbing Heathcliff
2011-11-15 16:20:00
Quite a few websites such as BBC News or The Telegraph and Argus are relaying the appeal from the Brontë Parsonage Museum to help them raise funds to bring Charlotte's tiny manuscript home. Please do help if you feel you can.In the meantime, the Grantham Journal brings news of yet one more Brontë-related auction (well, not really):Emily Brontë was extraordinarily shy and only a handful of portraits of her exist, but an oil painting of a young woman handed over to a Northamptonshire auctioneer by a retired headmaster bears all the hallmarks of the famous literary figure.The picture, which shows a young lady wearing a straw bonnet held in place by a silk scarf, could be of any young woman from the early 19th century, but it is thought that there is enough evidence to suggest that it is Emily Brontë.It is almost identical to a print of a portrait of Emily Brontë published in The Woman At Home (July 1894 issue) which itself was attributed to Charlotte Brontë.As well as that, writ...

An appeal from the Brontë Parsonage Museum
2011-11-15 06:14:00
If anyone can help towards this, please do.BRONTË MUSEUM APPEALS FOR HELP TO RETURN IMPORTANT LITERARY MANUSCRIPT TO HAWORTHThe Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire is appealing for help from funding bodies and members of the public to acquire an important Charlotte Brontë manuscript which is to be auctioned at Sothebys in London on Thursday 15 December. The manuscript, previously untraced and unpublished, is expected to fetch between £200,000 - £300,000 and contains three works by the young Charlotte Brontë, produced in September 1830 when she was 14 years old. It is part of a series of manuscripts known as ‘The Young Men’s Magazines’ which were inspired by a box of toy soldiers bought for Branwell Brontë by his father in 1826. The soldiers sparked a remarkable burst of creativity from the young Brontës who began creating stories which were handwritten into tiny books intended for the toy soldiers to ‘read’. Their minute scale and miniature details...

Emily Brontë’s World of Creative Contrasts
2011-11-15 00:15:00
A recent example of Japanese Brontë scholarship:Emily Brontë’s World of Creative Contrasts―Realism and the Supernatural in Wuthering HeightsMinako Yagi (八木 美奈�)Publisher: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho 大阪教育図書 (2011/01)ISBN: 9784271210023 The table of contents is:1 The Critical Overview of the Contrasts in Wuthering Heights 2 Realism and Wuthering Heights 3 The Supernatural and Wuthering Heights 4 Emily Brontë's Poems and Wuthering Heights 5 Narrative Structure 6 The Role of Nature 7 Lockwood's Nightmares 8 Catherine's Delirium 9 Heathcliff's Obsessions 10 The Second Generation 11 Ghosts on the Moor

Heathcliff's racelift
2011-11-14 13:25:00
The Guardian discusses 'How Heathcliff got a 'racelift''.Andrea Arnold's new version of Wuthering Heights has put the stray cat among the period-drama pigeons with its earthy realism and distinct lack of social niceties, but chances are, if you know anything about this movie, it is that it has got a black Heathcliff. "Black" meaning the role is played by two actors of Afro-Caribbean descent, Solomon Glave and James Howson.This fact above all others as been widely reported in the press, perhaps with the expectation that the nation, like a 19th-century dame, would collectively primp its petticoats at the sight of "a coloured gentleman". Arnold's decision to augment Emily Brontë's text with lines such as, "He's not my brother, he's a nigger!" only exacerbates the racial provocation. But the new Wuthering Heights has also drawn attention to the fact that up to now, Heathcliff has been played exclusively by Caucasian actors – Laurence Olivier, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hardy, Timoth...

Wuthering Manga in Italian
2011-11-14 00:52:00
Via Manga Forever, we have discovered that the Wuthering Heights manga adaptation drawn by Hiromi Iwashita will be translated and published in Italy next year by Ronin Manga. On the publisher's Facebook some pictures of the original Japanese comic can be seen:La Letteratura Coi MangaAnnunciata una settimana fa nel corso di Lucca Comics 2011, la nostra nuova linea editoriale prenderà il via all'inizio del 2012.Tra i primi titoli, il grande classico di Emily Brontë Cime Tempestose, di cui potete vedere in questa sede alcune tavole splendidamente disegnate da Hiromi Iwashita.
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The right kind of entertainment
2011-11-13 10:46:00
The Telegraph explores a thesis that we have read before. That the Brontës, and Wuthering Heights specifically, are particularly fitted for the present political and social stormy situation:The Brontës have transformed themselves over a century and a half, even if the ongoing fascination perhaps says more about us than it does about them. A tiny teenage manuscript of Charlotte’s is about to be sold, its value estimated at between £200,000 and £300,000, which is as good a measure of enthusiasm as any. And the release of new film versions of her and her sister Emily’s best-known books – Cary Fukanaga’s (sic) Jane Eyre and Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights – offers an opportunity to think about how we have remade these books in our own image.They were not always equally popular. Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, its vivid theatrical style making it a favourite to be turned into stage melodrama – as happened within a year of its publication in 18...
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The biggest mistake of my life
2008-06-10 19:09:00
Peter Kosminsky is interviewed by Laura Barnett for The Guardian and admits to something that takes us rather by surprise:Is there anything about your career you regret?Doing a remake of Wuthering Heights in 1992, when I had only ever made one drama. It was the biggest mistake of my life, and I repented at great leisure.Many people will surely agree but it's still quite shocking (but revealing) to hear the director himself say so.Director M. Night Shyamalan might have been on the verge of committing this same so-called mistake and retells an old anecdote for Rediff News. After Signs I did The Village [2004]. I was very into [Emily Bronte's novel] Wuthering Heights -- Fox actually offered me that movie, and I was re-reading the book and thinking about whether to do it or not, and all that thinking about period pieces got me thinking about The Village. (Prem Panicker)The Evening Standard reviews Dickens Unplugged, now on stage at the Comedy Theatre in London, UK and suggests a possi...
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Mr Earnshaw
2008-06-10 00:05:00
Not really big news, but a couple of updates for the people interested in the Wuthering Heights new miniseries now in production: The production has an imdb page that adds several crew names (with special mention to Mark Thornton, editor and Giles Gale, costume designer).A name that does not appear on the imdb page is the actor Kevin R. McNally (on the picture) who plays Mr. Earnshaw.Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights

A one-off
2008-06-09 12:19:00
Let's begin with some news from the Brontë Society June AGM Weekend. The Brontë Parsonage Blog publishes details of last Saturday's annual lecture by Professor Heather J. Glen:The title of the annual lecture at 11am on Saturday was The Originality of Wuthering Heights. It was given by Heather Glen, a frequent visitor to the Parsonage, who is Professor of English in the University of Cambridge. This is a very brief summary which can not do full justice to a lecture which was fresh, accessible and full of new insights for most of the audience, the obvious product of meticulous research:She began with a focus on the fact that Emily Brontë is sometimes referred to in various terms as a ‘one-off’, a lone genius who lived in a kind of “rustic ignorance�. (Richard) (Read more)Ravi Somaiya concludes his column in The Guardian with this comment:So frankly, if thieves had stolen my card, they'd barely be able to afford a couple of dog-eared Roald Dahls and a copy of Wuthering He...

Knit your own Brontë socks
2008-06-09 00:05:00
The Brontë-inspired arts and crafts are alive and well. Via Procraftination Station we have discovered something of particular interest to all knitters out there: Brontë socks!Haunted Yarns has a bunch of Wuthering Heights-inspired socks: Catherine (pictured and free), Hareton (free), Linton...And we are tempted - though probably wrong - to think that Rosamond (Oliver, from Jane Eyre) has her own design as well.Categories: Weirdo, Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights in Mobile
2008-06-09 00:02:00
An alert from Mobile , Alabama:Mobile Public Library9 June - 6:30 PM Classics Revisited Book Club - Wuthering Heights This month's topic of discussion is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.Refreshments will be served.For more information, please call Chris Cox at 208-7098. Location: Ben May Main LibraryCategories: Alert, Wuthering Heights